Shocking Setback

[Riel is an old word from the old world. If you use it people are going to look at you strangely. I didn't want to say this but Riels was a currency by your race, so it would be wise to stir away from that word.]

The advice should've made him exercise caution but he felt rebellious instead. He wanted to poke the bear, he wanted them to pay for the genocide of his people.

[Master, you didn't even know these people. You shouldn't care this much...It's not care is it, it's bloodlust.]

Lilith was right but Levi wasn't going to answer her.

After collecting a good number of the platinum stones in there, he sat in the middle with about two stones in either hand as instructed by Lilith.

The stones were as big as his small fists, but he could feel the concentrated energy in its centre. It was nothing to scoff at, he started consuming the thousands of years old energy in the two stones.

Unlike when he was in his Hub, the energy was more welcoming and warm. It was lulling him to sleep, and he didn't even realise it. He was still a child after all. Full, warm and sleepy.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

[You can't sleep just yet, you can't breakthrough in your sleep Master.]

His eyes shot open with the alarm Lilith blasted in his head. 'Shit, I can't keep my eyes open.'

[Come on Master, you can do it, you can do this.]

Lilith's cheerful supports sounded so far away. Like it was being drowned in the deepest parts of the ocean, or he was. Before he knew it, sleep had completely stolen his conscious mind.

"Mm. Where am I?" He looked around, but the darkness surrounding him made it impossible to see even his arms. "I'll just sit here then."

He felt heat surrounding his body, it didn't feel threatening, he felt right at home. He didn't know this but he was absorbing every bit of energy in the stones in the ditch.

Lilith observed this miracle, she hadn't been told about things like these. As far as her knowledge was concerned, beings are supposed to be able to absorb Gi when they're awake and only when they're awake—the hibernation state being the exception.

[His body is like a black hole. This is beyond my scope—beyond my understanding. What could it be? Is it because he's a demigod? I've never witnessed anything like it. His Hub is taking more than it can handle, yet it's far from instability to the point of explosion. This is most odd.]

Lilith observed him, not quite able to look through where all the energy was going. It couldn't have been the star he created, they weren't supposed to carry that much—or was his very special?

It wouldn't be surprising if his was special from what she knew. If he was someone who could change their territory's terrain and atmosphere out of fear of being invaded, then he must've been really special.

Lilith found that she was a little apprehensive about the future—if she didn't know any better she would call it excitement.

Levi woke up the next day, or so he thught. He was feeling very refreshed. He yawned and stretched his little limbs, he got on his feet and scratched his behind, the pants seemed to have shrunk considerably.

"I need to get me some clothes." He spoke up.

[Thank the gods! I thought you'd never wake up.]

"What do you mean the gods? We don't do that here." He said through gritted clearly still harbouring a grudge. "Hasn't it just been a day...I mean the 24 hours?"

[No, it's been three days. You must've been really tired.]

"From what? I was in hibernation for however years." He said, picking up where he left off. The stones looked a little less platinum than when he first set his eyes on them.

[Hibernation doesn't mean you're resting. The whole of those eight years you were working. That's why your body needed some rest.]

"Why are the stones not so platinum anymore?"

[That...you sucked them dry off their energy when you were sleeping. They'll be useless, so it's pointless taking them with. Without the energy in them they can't be made money.]

"I didn't know you could gather energy while sleeping." He stopped picking them, the entire hole was full of useless stones.

[As for your question, it's something I've never seen either. It was a first for me too, you're like a black hole. It's fascinating.]

"Haa that's a bummer about the—"

Levi was interrupted by violent coughs. It weighed heavily on his chest so he knelt to the ground trying to get it out but it had its grips on him.

Blood splattered to the cave floor, his heart raced too fast making him think he was about to die. His eyes turned into a different kind of red, it was as if the blood dyed even the whites of the eyes.

"What the hell, what's happening?" He asked with much difficulty, lying on the floor unable to do anything.

[It seems, something is forcibly stopping your breakthrough. I'm already looking at my archives, please be patient master.]

Levi could feel himself shaking, it wasn't his physical body but his mind. Which caused blackouts that didn't last very long.

"Lilith, p-please." He pleaded as he clutched his chest tightly.